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by kip_ 2mo ago
Well, thank goodness we don't price Fire Department response the same way. For my city of Ann Arbor, Michigan from https://www.a2gov.org/media/4glhvywf/2025-aafd-annual-report... FY2026 budget: $20,810,234 St
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by kip_ 3mo ago
I hadn't, but then 2.1.177 dropped in on auto-update and I assumed that was going to be the end of Fable for me, but I'm still on it. At least that's what the model picker is continuing to say along with the header. Cl
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by kip_ 1y ago
tab-completion of filenames in the directory tree is now unavailable. You'll need to use the Codex style @file to bring up an fzf style list
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by kip_ 1y ago
https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?bmcirjr... has something to say about that.
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by kip_ 3y ago
Particularly https://azwatermaps.azwater.gov/gwsiweb/
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by kip_ 3y ago
https://new.azwater.gov/aaws/maps-resources will give you a good idea of how far down wells have to go in various areas of Arizona.
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by kip_ 3y ago
Some of us graybeards use to use teletypes to talk to our computers. In one of the earlier races between differing I/O, the printer couldn't print as fast as the teletype was receiving data, so the teletype would send XOFF (Ctrl
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by kip_ 7y ago
Dear Cake Baker News moderators, I'm terribly disappointed that this community of thoughtful, interesting bakers can't seem to effectively discuss the topic of whether or not beans belong in chili.
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by kip_ 8y ago
"My baby is X months old and" led to discovering much fretting by parents.
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by kip_ 8y ago
The docs located at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Mu... should help you there.
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by kip_ 9y ago
It's been well over a decade since I last used a Palm device, and yet my printing still slips into Graffiti, notably the horizontal trail at the end for the letter V.
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by kip_ 9y ago
So they're brute forcing the master password for these databases. Why should I be worried if I'm using a non-dictionary multi-word passphrase as my master password? "Different password managers employ different approaches to
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by kip_ 9y ago
Why is thrott.com (ThrottleHQ) on your block list? I'd argue that those emails aren't disposable. I use ThrottleHQ to track when service providers resell my email to other lists.
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by kip_ 10y ago
I'm running macOS Sierra, 10.12 and Safari 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.10) I do not get the color change. Yes, 12602, not 11602.
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by kip_ 11y ago
I was amused to see that uBlock Origin's default filter lists now include sourceforge and thus I was momentarily stopped from seeing it. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Badware-risks
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by kip_ 12y ago
Actually the wiki for Github allows any text after the URL and then brings up the editing form and then save it. https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/This-is-silly
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by kip_ 12y ago
Isn't 8% month over month something like 150% year over year, how much faster growth did they need, or has the market really come to expect 1,000% year over year to be worthy of funding?
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by kip_ 12y ago
Think about what happens when you lay down any domino on that chessboard.
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by kip_ 12y ago
So you want to be yet another place I need to check in with to get these offers and provide the tracking, analytics and subscriber numbers to sell to businesses? In addition to Facebook, Twitter and my regular email.
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by kip_ 13y ago
Another happy BazQux user.
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by kip_ 13y ago
Announced over 6 weeks ago at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-timer.html
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by kip_ 13y ago
I'm rather happy with http://bazqux.com/ Granted, it's a one man shop, but he's charging $9-$29/year, so hopefully enough to keep it running. It's written in Haskell and Ur/Web, is quite fast,
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by kip_ 13y ago
Have to agree here. I managed to avoid gem purchases up to this point, but now trying to gather up 2M gold or elixir means I have to carefully pick other castles with more than 200K elixir to attack to make it worth my time and dedicate mor
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by kip_ 13y ago
Social Security taxes are only on the poor and middle class. If you make more than $113,700/year you're only out the $14,098.80 Source: http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10003.pdf
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by kip_ 13y ago
The 11-inch with 1.7GHz i5 with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD goes for $1,399. The 13-inch with 1.8GHz i5 and the same RAM/SSD goes for $1,499. Yes, there are cheaper laptops out there. I'm happy with the fit&finish, the operating system and t
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by kip_ 14y ago
It added an additional data point. Whether or not that's enough to be worthy of HN though?
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by kip_ 14y ago
Cost of land rental/lease.
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by kip_ 14y ago
And it can be gamed as well. Hold the space bar down from the start. 1,380 net WPM.
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by kip_ 14y ago
Does this get more than 2-3 words ahead? Perhaps I'm typing faster than I read (which makes no sense), but I'm missing words.
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by kip_ 14y ago
The top 10% of earners pay that much in taxes because they already make more income than the bottom 90% combined. If having a national defense and an infrastructure that has enabled a person to build that kind of income, don't you think tha

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